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    1. How Much Bandwidth Do Your Employees Need?

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      How Much Bandwidth Do Your Employees Need?

      Most moderate-sized organizations might need more than they think.

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      Mentions:   Pandora   Ars Technica   CNN

    2. Opinion: Data caps aren't perfect, but that's OK

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      Opinion: Data caps aren't perfect, but that's OK An economist argues that data caps might be good for you. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   The New York Times   Ars Technica

    3. Netherlands becomes world's second "net neutrality" country

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      Netherlands becomes world's second "net neutrality" country The net neutrality law finally passes the Dutch Senate. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Vodafone   KPN   European Union

    4. iOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even

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      iOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even There is no shortage of stories about lone developers who made an app for the iPhone or iPad and had runaway success. But in the real world, the majority of app makers struggle to break even, according to a recent survey by marketing firm App Promo. Though the survey's methodology is a bit on the light side, numerous developers that we spoke to agree that the results—59 percent of apps don't break ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple App Store   Apple

    5. Samsung, Apple continue smartphone market share tug-of-war

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      Samsung, Apple continue smartphone market share tug-of-war As Nokia continues to give up market share, Samsung and Apple are persisting in their tug-of-war to lay claim as the world's top smartphone vendor. And while Nokia's smartphone shipments have nosedived year-over-year for the first quarter, lagging overall sales have made Samsung the number one mobile vendor worldwide. The overall mobile phone market declined slightly for the first quarter, with shipments down 1.5 percent according to market research firm IDC. Nokia ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Samsung   Nokia   Apple

    6. Feature: Bandwidth explosion: As Internet use soars, can bottlenecks be averted?

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      Feature: Bandwidth explosion: As Internet use soars, can bottlenecks be averted? As the head of a bandwidth assessment group at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and past chairman of the IEEE's task force on 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit per second Ethernet, John D'Ambrosia is among the people who will help guide the world toward 400 Gigabit and even Terabit per second speeds. But will our capacity to deliver bandwidth keep up with the human race's ability to consume it ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   Apple App Store   Ieee

    7. Google Drive is here, and you can install it right now

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      Google Drive is here, and you can install it right now After years of speculation, Google Drive was released today, giving users 5GB of free storage to sync across computers, and finally giving Google a viable competitor to Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive, Apple's iCloud, and the like. Google announced the new service today and it's available at drive.google.com. Like Dropbox, it makes a special folder in your computer's file system, and any file put in the folder will sync across devices ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Google   Apple

    8. Google reportedly plans to launch online store to sell Nexus tablet

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      Google reportedly plans to launch online store to sell Nexus tablet The possibility of a Google-made Nexus tablet has been a major source of speculation over the past year. Recent rumors suggest the company is making a seven-inch device that will be priced to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire. Such a product could possibly be revealed at Google's upcoming I/O conference and might even run Android 5, which is rumored for a Q2 launch. A new report published today by the Wall Street ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Amazon.com   Ryan Paul

    9. House votes to limit FCC's power to make rules, set conditions on mergers

      Explore Ars Technica (Mar 29 2012) IP Telephony

      House votes to limit FCC's power to make rules, set conditions on mergers The Federal Communications Commission has demonstrated its regulatory powers over the past few months by sinking AT&T's attempt to buy T-Mobile, issuing rules on net neutrality, and stopping LightSquared's proposal to build a cellular network that would interfere with the operations of GPS devices. So it's no secret that cable and wireless companies would love to make it harder for the FCC to regulate their industries. On Tuesday, the Republican-led House ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cablevision   AT&T   Comcast

    10. Sweden may also investigate Apple over iPad 4G/LTE marketing

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      Sweden may also investigate Apple over iPad 4G/LTE marketing Just a day after the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission filed a complaint over Apple's 4G/LTE marketing in the new iPad, Sweden is considering an investigation of its own. The Swedish Consumer Agency says it has received a number of complaints from iPad buyers about the device's LTE capabilities—LTS is only available in the US—and is now weighing whether it wants to open its own investigation into Apple's marketing practices ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telstra   Apple   jacqui cheng

    11. "Siri, does anyone still use you?" Yes, says survey

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      "Siri, does anyone still use you?" Yes, says survey Roughly half of iPhone 4S owners using Siri are "very satisfied" with the service, according to a newly published survey. Market research firm Parks Associates published its report about Siri users on Tuesday, noting that the most common uses for Apple's "virtual personal assistant" are still pretty standard, like making phone calls or dictating text messages. According to the survey of 482 users, 87 percent of iPhone 4S owners are still using Siri at ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Parks Associates   Siri

    12. Sprint says iPhone users are "more profitable" than those of other platforms

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      Sprint says iPhone users are "more profitable" than those of other platforms iPhone users are "more profitable than the average smartphone customer," which is why Sprint was willing to sink $15.5 billion into offering the iPhone to its subscribers last year. That's according to Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, who defended the carrier's decision to bring on the iPhone in an interview with Mobile World Live (hat tip to BGR) on Wednesday. Hesse not only said that iPhone users are more profitable, they're also ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   Sprint Nextel   Dan Hesse

    13. How to become a battery miser: tips for saving battery life on the iPad

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      How to become a battery miser: tips for saving battery life on the iPad It's no secret by now that the third-generation iPad's battery grew by 70 percent to accommodate the device's new retina display. But despite that capacity, the new iPad's battery life has remained just about the same as that of the iPad 2. This would suggest that battery life is not a significant concern, right? If you're anything like me, that assumption is still wrong. My own personal mission when using ... (Read Full Article)

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    14. Desperate LightSquared claims 5th Amendment violation, demands new spectrum

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      Desperate LightSquared claims 5th Amendment violation, demands new spectrum An increasingly desperate LightSquared today accused the Federal Communications Commission of violating its constitutional property rights by rejecting its application to build a 4G network on spectrum adjacent to that used by GPS devices, and demanded that the FCC either reverse its decision or give LightSquared a new chunk of spectrum. The bold claims follow the FCC's decision last month to withdraw LightSquared's conditional approval to use spectrum allocated for satellite transmissions for ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Sprint Nextel   Federal Communication Commission

    15. Verizon iPad found to be compatible with AT&T's 3G network

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      Verizon iPad found to be compatible with AT&T's 3G network Those purchasing third-generation iPads running on Verizon's LTE network on Friday may be in luck when it comes to carrier compatibility. A MacRumors forum member has discovered that the Verizon iPad can run on AT&T's 3G network simply by swapping out the iPad's Micro-SIM and updating the device's carrier settings. "I was one of the first to obtain a Verizon iPad and can happily confirm that this is allowed! I ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LTE   AT&T   jacqui cheng

    16. Authenticated electricity: Sony power outlets will charge you for charging

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      Authenticated electricity: Sony power outlets will charge you for charging Sony is building a new kind of power outlet that raises a not entirely pleasant prospect—in the future, plugging a phone into a public wall socket might require authentication and take a chunk out of your bank account. But the technology will have many important uses, Sony says, from managing payments for recharging electrical vehicles to avoiding blackouts by intelligently regulating the use of power. Announced by Sony last month, and demonstrated today in ... (Read Full Article)

    17. Telecom Remains a Business Where the Government Can Dictate Prices, Packaging

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      Telecom Remains a Business Where the Government Can Dictate Prices, Packaging

      Level 3 wants the Federal Communications Commission to restrict terms and conditions for interconnection with AT&T and Verizon. 

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      Mentions:   AT&T   Comcast   Securities and Exchange Commission

    18. Feature: The five technologies that will transform homes of the future

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      Feature: The five technologies that will transform homes of the future You get home from work on a Tuesday evening. Sensing your arrival, your home turns on the lights in the living room and kitchen. You stop by the bathroom and step on your Internet-connected scale—it absorbs your day's activity levels from a clip-on fitness monitoring device, then logs them on a website along with your sleeping activity and health history. After making dinner, you sit down in front of the TV and tell ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Google   Wireless Gigabit Alliance

    19. Apple's iPad with retina display, quad core graphics ships March 16

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      Apple's iPad with retina display, quad core graphics ships March 16 Apple announced a new version of the iPad at an event today in San Francisco. The new hardware will have a retina display, a 5-megapixel rear camera, access to 4G LTE networks, and an A5 X chip with quad-core graphics. "To this day, no one has yet matched that display technology on any mobile device," Phil Schiller said of the 2048x1536 display (that works out to 264 pixels per inch). The new A5X chip is ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   Telus   Apple

    20. Google Play replaces Android Market and unifies Android content services

      Explore Ars Technica (Mar 6 2012) Applications , Marketing

      Google Play replaces Android Market and unifies Android content services Google has gradually been ramping up its content distribution channels for Android. Over the past two years, the platform has gained dedicated stores for purchasing electronic books and movies. Google also provided its own music locker and streaming service. The search giant is now streamlining all of these into a unified service for purchasing, syncing, and streaming media content. The new cloud-based media platform is called Google Play. The company characterizes it as a comprehensive ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Android Market   Ryan Paul

    21. Pew study shows the democratization of the smartphone

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      The percentage of smartphone owners is growing closer to the 50 percent mark, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. Forty-six percent of American adults now have smartphones, with growth in several areas that show increasing democratization in ownership. Smartphones saw more growth among women than men, with 44 percent of women owning smartphones, up from 31 percent in May 2011, compared to men's growth from 39 to 49 percent. The ... (Read Full Article)

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    22. Feature: Gigabit Internet for $80: the unlikely success of California's Sonic.net

      Explore Ars Technica (Feb 26 2012) Applications , Marketing

      Feature: Gigabit Internet for $80: the unlikely success of California's Sonic.net SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA—Two things set a one-block stretch of Florence Avenue apart from other American streets. One is the quirky metal sculptures planted in front of most homes; the other is the Internet traffic coursing through recently-strung fiber-optic cables on the block’s utility poles. They offer each house up to one gigabit per second in bandwidth, making this one of the fastest streets in America. While some other cities can also brag about gigabit ... (Read Full Article)

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    23. White House announces new privacy "Bill of Rights," Do Not Track agreement

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      White House announces new privacy "Bill of Rights," Do Not Track agreement Saying "American consumers can't wait any longer" for better privacy rules, President Obama took the wraps off his administration's framework for new privacy regulations. As part of its big reveal, the White House also announced the first product of that framework: the completion of an industry agreement on "Do Not Track" technology for behavior-based web advertising. Read the comments on this post (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Google   European Union

    24. Future Chrome version may choose your passwords, and change them when you've been hacked

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      Future Chrome version may choose your passwords, and change them when you've been hacked Google's Chrome development team is working on a system to automatically generate passwords, which would help users secure their online identities with passwords that would be diversified across different sites, and are randomized and thus harder to guess. Detailed in developer documentation on the Chromium Project site, the system would detect account sign-up pages and "add a small UI element to the password field" giving the user the option of letting Chrome manage the ... (Read Full Article)

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